Please take pity :) I'm an extreme newbie to debian (having installed it for the first time about a week ago. I was assiged the task of setting up a 50 seat network, and since we're an edcuational institution, we have a really tight budget: the savings of not having to buy a $9 per person liscence are quite hefty.
Unfortuantly, we'll still be using w2k clients. Now, not having my head completly buried in my ::cough:: I knew that samba could provide file sharing. Little did I know that samba-tng would provide good w2k access. This is my dilemma: to run samba-tng, I have to upgrade to "unstable." My mandate explictly states that downtime is *BAD*, very, very, very, bad. How risky is running unstable? What shouldn't I do? Should I upgrade to 2.4.6? (I'm running a home box as a testbed for this, so I'll be warned slightly in advance, but...) I'd love any advice or assistance. If anyone wants to help, or discuss this over lunch, I live in LA, and I'll be going to rochester, NY, for 3 days next week. I'd love to actually discuss this with someone who knows what they're talking about. Thank you, -Brian
